I get kinda scared criticising things these days: You're either unanimous, or on the losing side and getting flack for what you think*. What I want to say is: I really don't give a crap about Q or the dance game (the former because I'm kinda over my dungeon crawlers these days, or at least I haven't been "taken" with one in some time; and the latter because, even though they're fun, I suck ass at rhythm-titles), the only one that's got my attention is the one we know least about: P5.

Certainly the fact "Q" and "Dancing with the Persona-Stars" are spin-offs, and not particularly inspired ones at that, really makes this fly by my radar till maaaaybe some earth-shattering, (literally) game-changing news can change my mind otherwise.

I DO like that whole "give the game a chance!" approach, but the "Inner-Dice" is shouting back more something to the tune of: "YUP, YOU JUST KEEP MILKING IT ATLUS, MILK THAT PERSONA TEET DRY". I could also probably ramble on for hours about how irritated I get with some of the design decisions with respect to the Final Fantasy 13 saga and it's muddy plot, but I don't want Yggy getting salty on me**.

*On that note, I hate this whole fucking Disqus thing using Upvotes and Downvotes for this exact reason. If you actually, honestly, and truthfully mean to criticize something and not be a troll or complete dick about it (eg; you're not like "FUCKEN JRPGS AND THEIR WEIRD SHIT"), you will STILL get "downvoted" for mere differences in "excitement" and anticipation for a title. It feels more like a "fuck your opinion, it clashes with my interests!" even if a valid point is made.

** If it helps, one of my favorite series, the Star Ocean series, gets a lot of hell on this forum too. *shrug*

I think the milking of P3 and P4 is a lot more respectable than the kind you see in mainstream games. It also seems to have brought the series to a much wider audience. This can cause some problems, but overall it seems to benefit Atlus's other titles, which is something I like to see.

Don't worry, you are gonna be salty no matter what. Which is fine by me.

No, actually, I'm not. The idea that you shouldn't criticise any game companies and they always do everything right is silly.

To be fair, you're not so much criticizing as much as claiming the worst possible scenario imaginable. It's kind of like if I got a headache and went directly to "I have a brain tumor," instead of "I must've caught a head cold." You can see the difference, yes? :P

But honestly, I don't blame people for not really liking where PQ and P4D seem to be going, they just happen to be in genres I actually like (which, to be fair, is pretty much everything other than sports games and even then I play FIFA once in a while), so I'm not complaining too much.

That being said, I thought this image is apropos (I got it from someone who put it in response to me saying I'm modifying my Yu Narukami cosplay):

Well, I think an enhanced portable port with mostly negligible side stories released four years after the original is hardly comparable to having an enhanced edition less than a year after the original game on the exact same system. SMT4's microtransactions were, as stated before, nothing substantial at all; we got the whole game with SMT4, the DLC just made the game absurdly easy and were not necessary. Also, region locking P4A to prevent reverse importing was a good business move, though I understand why people are annoyed by it; blame the Japanese economy, I guess. I'll concede the Devil Survivor thing though.

I can see why you'd be annoyed, but some of these things you're talking about are being blown way out of proportion.

I'd rather see them successful with a multitude of different titles like they used to do but I'm not going to cut them slack on things that people complain about when other companies like Activision or Ubisoft do it just because Persona games are trendy.

Maybe I'm blowing the Persona stuff out of proportion, but I don't think the region locking is. It was a *massive* dick move on their part. Maybe it was good for business, but it was a giant middle finger to fans.

I'm with Dice on this. I kind of ended up with mixed feelings. I'll probably play them and probably even enjoy them, especially Q because I love almost any dungeon crawler you throw at me. But inner me knows they're just milking that shit.

Also, fuck Disqus. It didn't use Downvotes a few years ago and it was decent then. Downvoting is the worst thing to ever come to the internet.

Despite the fact that I too was somewhat hoping for a "Persona at the workplace," the idea that one of the Nocturne folks is in charge of P5 is already sorta promising enough. I fully expect to shout out loud "DID I JUST DO THAT?!" at my TV by the end of the game.

PQ's got me pretty excited because Etrian Odyssey but with a better battle camera (even though I don't quite know how dungeon navigation's going to work yet).

Persona Project Diva...meh. My excitement is nonexistant, but the fact that it's likely being headed by a completely different group of people pretty much means that it won't affect the development cycle of new mainline Persona games and won't interfere with anything. It's pretty much harmless. But what's this about "only three people are playable?" At the 1:30 mark of the trailer, they blatantly state that there's at LEAST six. Either way, damn. That smile is pretty Megidolaon Cute.

Don't worry, you are gonna be salty no matter what. Which is fine by me.

No, actually, I'm not. The idea that you shouldn't criticise any game companies and they always do everything right is silly.

I'm not saying that. I'm saying that with the hype P5 has behind it is pretty obvious that the game most likely is gonna do well enough to get a new line of sequels being on other genres and because of that you are gonna get all hot and bothered again.

Also just to left things clear, I would certainly like to see more stuff like DDS or Catherine, but Persona is a priority for Atlus to take care of after it grabbed an audience that only seems to grow since P3.

I could also probably ramble on for hours about how irritated I get with some of the design decisions with respect to the Final Fantasy 13 saga and it's muddy plot, but I don't want Yggy getting salty on me**.

Sure I enjoy XIII but I'm not close to be part of the "defense force" either.

I'd rather see them successful with a multitude of different titles like they used to do but I'm not going to cut them slack on things that people complain about when other companies like Activision or Ubisoft do it just because Persona games are trendy.

Maybe I'm blowing the Persona stuff out of proportion, but I don't think the region locking is. It was a *massive* dick move on their part. Maybe it was good for business, but it was a giant middle finger to fans.

I see your point. Regrettably, thanks to the modern development requirements and costs I honestly don't see that happening, at least not with console games. The PS2 generation was a golden era for Atlus that probably won't happen again, sad to say...